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Omer Van Huylenbrouck went on his first combat mission with a different crew. It was nothing exciting. [Annotator's...

Donald Albert Carlson did a lot of training and was assigned an airplane and a crew [Annotator's Note: in preparation...

Rackley did not have much of a relationship with his commanding officer [Annotator's Note: Rackley is referring to his...

Carl Platkin remembers they could not do anything about the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. They...

Donald Dean Paynter was born in Madison, Wisconsin in August 1922. His brother was in World War 2 as well. His father...

On D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Omaha [Annotator's Note:...

Rankin had his own plush Gooney Bird [Annotator's Note: nickname for Douglas C-47 "Skytrain" transport aircraft] in...

With the 787th Bombardment Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, Fred A. Stecher was sent overseas to...

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Eighth Air Force] pulled detail one night as the kitchen ran 24...

Ben Kuroki grew up with Caucasian friends. There were only a few Japanese American families around at the time. The...

Lloyd Reese had been a prisoner-of-war after his Consolidated B-24 Liberator had been shot down over Ploesti, Romania....

After World War 2, Robert "Bob" Livingston, moved to New York near his sister. He eventually moved into an apartment...

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